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Subsidies In One Place Don’t Justify Tariffs in Another by Lee Friday – Mises Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard told reporters “Quebec has been attacked. And Quebec will resist. And Quebec will unite. . . .” This sounds serious. I always thought Canada’s...

Entrepreneurs Are the Key To Economic Development by Sascha Klocke – Mises Questions of economic development have long been long held a prominent position in economics. How did the most advanced economies get to where they are? What can less-advanced economies do...

Yellen: The Economy May Be Weaker than We Thought by Ryan McMaken – Mises Janet Yellen this week cast doubt on the Fed’s announced plan to continue Fed rate hikes and reverse its years of “unconventional” monetary policy. “My colleagues and I...

If the Majority Votes to Secede — What About the Minority? by Ryan McMaken – Mises In recent years, left-wing groups have often been the driving force behind secession movements. This has been the case in Scotland, in Catalonia, and in California. In each...

Then Came Nixon Video – Mises In this episode, Chris Calton explains how the Nixon Administration kicked off the modern War on Drugs, featuring no-knock raids, fictional crime stats, and the expansion of the American police state. Video Source

The World Is Creeping Toward De-Dollarization by Ronald-Peter Stöferle – Mises The issue of when a global reserve currency begins or ends is not an exact science. There are no press releases announcing it, and neither are there big international conferences that...

Stanley Fischer’s Well-Timed Fed Exit by Brendan Brown – Mises TDC Note – This is same scumbag that just a few months ago was telling us that, basically, it was the American people’s fault for demanding banking regulations!!! How dare the people...

You Live and Breathe Economics by FEE – Mises “Economics puts parameters on people’s utopias.” Yes. That’s exactly it. That’s why the politicians hate economics. That’s why the media are so… selective over which economists they call on to talk...

Are Central Banks Nationalising the Economy? by Daniel Lacalle – Mises The FT recently ran an article that states that “leading central banks now own a fifth of their governments’ total debt.” The figures are staggering. Without any recession or crisis, major...

The Real Cause of America’s Opioid Epidemic by Mark Thornton – Mises TDC Note – Let’s not forget the UN report on opium/poppy production just as the “opioid epidemic” exploded. The report reads like a corporate stock prospectus. Click here and here as...

Andrew Napolitano: What Ever Happened to the Constitution? Video – Mises TDC Note – While this is a few years old does it really matter if it was recorded this morning or 50 years ago? Our Constitution has been under...

A Tale of Two “Deflationary” Booms – The Gilded Age vs. Today by Brendan Brown – Mises The forces of globalization during the past two decades have been stronger than at any time since the era of “the Great Deflation” which...

Why Cryptocurrencies Will Never Be Safe Havens by Mark Spitznagel – Mises Every further new high in the price of Bitcoin brings ever more claims that it is destined to become the preeminent safe haven investment of the modern age — the new...

China: A Keynesian Monster by Per Bylund – Mises I recently spent two weeks traveling in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), a vast country with many contrasts: old vs. new, poor vs. rich, traditional vs. modern, East vs. West. While...

An Evening with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Video – Mises Recorded at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2017. Hosted by the Mises Institute. Includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell, as well as a Question and Answer Period....

Money Supply Growth Falls Again, Dropping to 105-Month Low by Ryan McMaken – Mises Growth in the supply of US dollars fell again in May, this time to a 105-month low of 5.4 percent. The last time the money supply grew at...

The Part-Time Critics of Central Banks by Mark Spitznagel – Mises There seems to be no shortage today of investors and pundits criticizing the market interventions of the world’s central banks. Monetary stimulus in the form of artificially low interest rates...

Maxine Waters Wants to Make Poor People Poorer by Tho Bishop – Mises On Wednesday, Janet Yellen testified before the House Financial Services Committee. Though the hearings lost much of their appeal when Dr. Ron Paul retired from Congress, the House Republicans...

Money, Keynes, and History by Friedrich A. Hayek – Mises The chief root of our present monetary troubles is, of course, the sanction of scientific authority which Lord Keynes and his disciples have given to the age-old superstition that by increasing the...

Congress Will Make Sure Taxpayers Keep Sending Money to Terrorists by Alice Salles – Mises One of the few elected Democratic lawmakers with an extensive anti-war record, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), has combined forces with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) to...